8/26/2013. REVELATION IS VERY IMPORTANT

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Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:13 PM
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 “Baptism of Pati. Her husband is a member and he baptized her. My comp baptized Enrique, which you will see later.”   8/24/2013.  Elder Peterson & Elder Coffman.  Caucel, MX Mission.

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Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM
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hola familia. pues este semana fue muy bien. whoops i forgot i was wrting in spanish haha this week we had two baptisms . it was a really good week for us. things are going so well in the ward that i guess they are going to bring in another companionship to our ward so this ward is giong to explode. we are working really hard and we find new people everyday that the Lord has prepared for us. i am really happy that i am here. i have learned a lot and i keep learning more everyday. my companion and i get a long really good too. we have a lot in common. as far as interesing things that happened this week,there was a lot of rain most of the week. and so it was pretty good. i like the rain a lot here. and then something funny that happened is my companion found a creepy barbie doll head that had all of its hair cut off so he would always put on his desk looking right at me and it was pretty creepy so i moved it and then he kept putting it on my desk or made it so it was looking at me and then one time he put it on the toilet so when i was about to go to the bathroom it scared me and so it was pretty funny and then the next day he took the shower first and he put the doll in the shower too so it scared me again and the next day when i went to shower i was expecting to see it and it wasnt there so i thought oh i guess hes just done messing around and then i went to get my soap out of the container and the head was in there and i screamed hahahhahahahaah of course it was a manly scream maybe more of a yell but he got it out of me hehe but yeah we are havginga  pretty good time working hard losing our selves in the work. thats about all that has happçend this week. well i hope things are all good for you guys back there. with school starting and all. i guess if i were to tell you one thing this week for spiritual advice, i woudl say to read the article by elder oaks in the liahona or the ensign about how revalation works. im prety sure its in august. yall can really learna lot from that. revelation is really important and i know we would be lost with out it. well i love you guys a lot and iñll send some pics.oh yeah i am really happy for cameron too. he is going to be a great missionary. well adios

elder coffman

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Date: 2013/8/26
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To: Janel Coffman <janelscoffman@gmail.com>, Scott Coffman <scottcoffman84010@gmail.com>, Elder Jordan Parkinson, annelloyd Alexandra Lloyd, "aury H. Lopez"

8/24/2013.  Elder Coffman and Elder Peterson at a Baptism.  

“Enrique. he is a great man with a sweet spirit. he loves his family and his wife has been waiting a long time for him to be baptized. i love completing families because then they can be sellado in the temple in one year and that is what this work is all about. its the best thing to see a family get completed.”

oh y para hermana aurelia, pues ojala que pueda leer ingles jejeje pues este es un hombre que bautizamos. el es muy noble. pues ojala que ustedes esten bien alla en valladolid. oro por usted y su familia todos los dias. ojala que esten yendo a la capilla todavia y que esten teniendo sus noche de hogares. siempre recuerdan a orar tambien. pues los amo mucho a todos ustedes. conozco una familia aqui que estan a punto de sellarse y yo se que esto es lo que Dios quiere para ustedes. la cosa es que el diablo no quiere esto asi que el va a poner muchos pruebas para impedirles a hacerlo pero se que ustedes nuncan se daran por vencidos. nunca pierdan la fe en dios porque el nunca perdera la fe en nosotros. este semana cantamos los himnos 202 y 42 y me hizo pensar en usteds. si sienten tristes cantan este cancion porque la musica es muy poderosa. son los mas potentes personas he conocido en mi mision y nos veremos en el futuro. adios

con carino, elder yayayaayayayayayayayayayayayayayayahhhh(;

elder coffman

Janel's Note:  With Stephen being very busy up at Utah State I just google translated the above Spanish part of Elder Coffman's letter.  Hopefully most of the words are translated correctly.

 oh and sister aurelia, because hopefully you can read English lol because this is a man who baptized. he is very noble. then hopefully you are well there in valladolid. I pray for you and your family every day. hopefully who are still going to the chapel and we're having their homes night. always remember to pray too. for I love you so much to all of you. I know a family here that are about to be sealed and I know this is what God wants for you. the thing is that the devil does not want this so that he will put many tests to prevent them to do so but you will be given nuncan up. never lose faith in God because he never lose faith in us. This week we sang the hymns 202 and 42 and made me think usteds. if you feel sad sing this song because the music is very powerful. are the most powerful people I've met in my mission and we will see in the future. bye

fondly, elder yayayaayayayayayayayayayayayayayayahhhh(;

elder coffman

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8/15/2013.  Elder Peterson & Elder Coffman.  Caucel, MX Mission.

  “My companion and i in a mototaxi. it is a little motorcycle that has a part behind it to sit down in that they use in pueblos. they are pretty good.”  8/15/2013.  Elder Randy Peterson & Elder David Coffman.  Caucel, MX Mission.

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8/23/2013.  Elder Randy Peterson, Mission President-Sergio Garcia and his wife, Sister Garcia and Elder David Coffman.  Caucel, MX Mission.

“The hermana garcia came to check our house and she brought us the ranger cookies! they were super good.  and also she said that our house was super clean haah.”

8/19/2013. FEED MY SHEEP

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Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:18 PM
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Thanks for sending your sons on missions.  From time to time when we have them over we will send more pictures and updates.

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8/19/2013

Good afternoon to the parents of some wonderful missionaries.  We are the Sparks, we are from Arizona and we are Temple missionaries serving in the Merida Mexico Temple.  We have a few occasions to work with your sons and they are awesome young men.  We enjoy feeding the missionaries when we can and today was one of those wonderful chances for us to do that.  We had 7 elders over to our apartment for a meal and we had a great time, we fed them and then let them feast upon home made ice cream American style with all the trimmings.  (we fill their stomachs and they fill our hearts)What a blessing it was for us to have such great young missionaries in our apartment and to share some time with them and feel of their strong spirits.  Each of you should be proud  of your missionary, these elders work hard, keep the rules and have love for the elders as well as the members and investigators. Oh, just in case you have forgotten, they can eat lots of food.  Thanks for making the sacrifice to send your sons on missions, they truly bless lots of lives in the Yucatan and we are 2 of the lives they are blessing. They are each one healthy and happy and having the times of their lives, loving every minute of their service and making people happy.
Elder and Sister Sparks

More pictures to follow

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Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:51 PM
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To: Janel Coffman <janelscoffman@gmail.com>

well i didn´t bring my cord with me so no pics this week. i took some though so don´t worry about that. today we ate with a temple missionary. it was really nice of them to feed us. it was really good. you´ll probably get a email from them because they took some pics. and i really liked it becasue they had bbq sauce. i hadn´t eaten some bbq sauce for a long time so it was really good haha. it wasn´t sweet baby rays though. well this week was really good. i would like to talk a little about the pruebas that we pass through. if  you guys study the stories of Joseph Smith, Job and of Alma and the other groups of people when the Church was being started in the book of Mosiah 17 to the end of the chapter, you can see that there are alot of different reasons why we pass through trials. sometimes we bring them upon ourselves, sometimes they come through the acts of others, or sometimes the Lord just decides to let  things happen to test our faith. yall should study these stories in the bible, bom, and d and c- chuch history. i am prompted to write about this because we have some great examples of people who have great faith. one family is about to get sealed in the temple and they are passing through many hardships. no work, hurt knee, temptations, etc. but they have their eye single to the glory of God. they have an eternal perspective. another one is going to get baptized, the husband is giving her a hard time, but again, she has a eternal perspective on life. this is what we need. the hard ships that we pass through are short. life is less than a blink of the eye in the grand scheme of things.  but even giving in one time can have eternal consequences if we don’t repent. now the last example is with us. we left the house and we were walking to our first appointment but the hermana called us and said she couldn’t talk so we went to the back up plan, wasnt there. long story short, we did 10 back up plans and it was hot and humid and we were walking the whole time. but it was just a test of our faith. we could have given up. we could have listened to the adversayr, but we kept working and we found a golden investigator. never give up. God is always listing to our prayers. sometimes he is slow to answer the prayers of the unrightous, but he will listen. yall should read the stories i told that are found in the scriptures and try to apply them to your lives.  i’m glad everything is going good for you guys and we will talk to you next week.

love elder coffman

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well i love you a lot too mother. i’m glad you are riding your bike. we met someone who likes eating healthy and i told her that you said our body is likea machine and we have to put good fuel in it. haha well i love you a lot and i’ll talk to you later. adios

love elder coffman

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Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM
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love you too sis. so you already wrote your talk. you should send me a copy. id love to hear it. and thats cool your singing. i used to be really scared but now we sing before every lesson and even though it might not be good, i still like to sing the songs jeje. i´m glad you are going to get the blessing. so when does school start again_ well adios mc

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Cc:

wow thats a great message from cameron. i am really glad he could give a good talk. i am really proud of him. today we ate with a temple missionary. he was talking a lot about how he used to go fishing too and i really was thinking about how we would fish.  a lot of people will never change unless they are invited to do it. Christ said to peter, do you love me 3 times. he was directing this to him because he started fishing again after working. Christ was asking Peter, do you love me more than fishing_ of course peter said yes. so Christ gave the famous answer of FEED MY SHEEP. now i would like to apply this to our lives. as a representative of Jesus Christ, i would like to ask you,  if you love Christ. Do you love more than all of the activities that we feel our lives with . if your answer was yes, then feed his sheep. 99 sheep are in the fold, but there is one sheep who has lost his way.  Feed His sheep. in as much as you have done unto these the least of my bretheren, you have done unto me. remember the temple covenants and your baptismal covenant.  Feed his sheep. please i have had dreams about this. i don´t know why but it has been something that is on my mind for a long time. if you work all your days preaching repentance and you bring one soul unto God, how great will your joy be with that soul when we meet before God. now if you bring many souls unto God, how much greater will your joy be.  Remember, by small and simple things, the Lord saves many souls. it doesn´t have to be big, but it has to be something.

love elder coffman

8/12/2013. THE WORTH OF EVERY SOUL IS GREAT

7/30/2013.  Elder Coffman & Elder Peterson.  Caucel, MX.   "Haciendo servicio. The tool we use here for everything are called coas. they are really usefull and i think i{ll buy one to bring it home for doing work at home oh wait at home we have chainsaws and power tools so i think i{ll just stick to technology haha haha they are awesome except my comp cut his leg with it haha."  

7/30/2013.  Elder Coffman & Elder Peterson.  "Doing Service."

 

8/7/2013.  More Service.  Caucel, MX

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potente yeah we’ll have to go on a bike ride. i really wish we had bikes here becuase our area is so huge haha 

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Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: 8/11/13. Hola' Greetings from your family - We love you!
To: Janel Coffman <janelscoffman@gmail.com>

hola famialia well it looks like things are going good with you guys. and that is especially good that Stephen has a novia. i can{t believe it. well they look cute together. eso!1 haha so did you guys not go to the family reunion this year in cedar city_ i didn{t even realize that the time had already passed for that. 

well as far as this week went, it was raining a lot but we had some really cool things happen . we found some poeple that were already prepared by angels before we got here and they will be baptized in a couple of weeks. this pást week we had a capacitacion about missionary work and they told us that in the past year 35000 mexicans got baptized but now only about 1500 are going to church and it was really sad. its about 1 in every 24 so i think of the people who i have helped to be baptized up to this point and based on these statistics, only 1 of the many dear friends i have helped entere into the water of baptism would be active. its pretty crazy. i share this because eventhough most everyone one in our family is a member since 8 years of age, not all are active and even in the future more might fall away. it is really one of the saddest things. the scriptures are very strong about not falling away after accepting the Gospel. like in 2 nefil 31 and in alma 24 there are verses that talk about how if one person accepts the gospel and then falls away it would have been better to never have known God before. i hope that never happens to anyone that i know especially those who are in my family. this work is so important. i have had several dreams this week where i was helping those who have fallen away from the faith to come back. i can{t help those who are in utah, but you guys can. i hope that yall do everything possible to help those who have fallen away, ya sea family or friends. there are not a lot of things that would be more important than helping other people to return back to the fold of God. they say there is a party in heaven everytime that a soul repents and comes back. i{d imagine that God would also have a few blessings in store for those who have helped his beloved children to come back home. be the one that leaves the 99 to go back to find the lost sheep. the value of every child of God is great in his sight and i pray and hope that we can live in a way that the Holy Ghost can work through us to help those that have fallen to come back. some of the most tragic stories i have seen are of those who have fallen away. i hope we can help all to come back. we have been blessed with strong testimonies and with talents. we need to use these talents to help those who need them. i know yall know that you need to do and who you need to help. i know the first thing i{ll do when i get home is help those who i love.

well i love you guys a lot 

elder coffman

mother that is good about your bike rides. i look forward to riding with you again.

mc thats awesome about your patriarchal blessing when do you think you will get it. and when does school start up again_ well i love you a lot.

scotty hows it going_ hahah well i guess it sounds like you are fixing up everything on the house so that is good.